This Old House | Home Improvement and Remodeling

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Norm's Best Tricks of the Trade

Mitered joints, making face-grain wood plugs, cutting baseboards for contours, adding shelves, door casings, and more

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Check out this award-winning restoration of an interior nearly untouched since 1944

Graceful Rejuvenation for a Water-Damaged Living Room

Ellie Dorritie's front garden in Buffalo, NY

Where space is tight, street-side gardens are growing lush with specimen trees, showy shrubs, bold foliage, and...

Street-Side Gardens: Inspirational, Lawnless Front Yards

Every week we ask our Facebook fans what they're getting done around the house. Here are some of our latest...

Your Weekend Projects XXIII

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Centriq is on a mission to radically simplify your life as a homeowner. Learn how

Centriq | The Ultimate Mobile App for Home Organization, Repair and Maintenance

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This season we took on 2 houses in beautiful Charleston, S.C.

Binge Watch All of the Charleston Episodes

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Take a sneak peek at the upcoming season of the show with our always-on livestreams from the new job sites

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Doug and Casey Hinkle of Ohio wowed the judges with their kitchen renovation

Competition was intense, but these TOH Insiders' projects were recognized as the best of the best

See the Winners of the Tommy Awards

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We're bringing back old episodes of The New Yankee Workshop! Watch them on demand

Binge Watch Seasons 1-3 of The New Yankee Workshop

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All the places to find full episodes right now

New Ways to Watch TOH and AskTOH

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Just type House.One into any browser to see our newest offering. Or you could, of course, just click here...

Introducing House One by TOH

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Super fans and This Old House INSIDER membership cardholders got a first look at the home that will be featured...

TOH Fans Attend the Charleston Wrap Party

A Letter from Roger Cook

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TOH heads south with new Generation Next apprentices to restore and renovate two historic homes

The Charleston Houses

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We proudly support the mikeroweWORKS Foundation through our Generation Next campaign. Together, we're...

Generation NEXT

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Find the zone for your town to determine what plants will flourish in your yard.

USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map

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In a new partnership, TOH joins forces with The House Designers to bring you amazing home-building plans. Check it...

NEW! Get TOH-Approved House Plans

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Now you can purchase the project plans featured in full episodes of The New Yankee Workshop

The New Yankee Workshop | Get Norm's Building Plans

Ask This Old House Cast Crew

Miss the last episode? Watch it here now

Watch NEW Full Episodes of AskTOH

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Every month, Ask This Old House and The Home Depot will present a practical home improvement...

DIY Smarts

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Inspirational home and yard transformations from TOH fans just like you!

Reader Remodels

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New episodes start on October 6th. Bookmark this link to get up-to-date PBS air schedules

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It was an honor to work alongside this wonderful young man and such a tragedy to lose him. Austin will always be a...

Austin Wilson: In Memoriam

A new digital media enterprise to deliver branded home-related content, tools, and advertising solutions across the...

This Old House Real Estate Network

Have you spent the weekend—or the past year—working around your house? Become an Insider member and show us what you...

Introducing the Tommy Awards

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Tidy up from top to bottom with help from the pros. Here's just about everything we've got on the topic

Spring Cleaning

Kids Making It Austin Wilson

Kids Making It is the organization that turned Austin on to woodworking. They're raising funds to assist Austin's...

Learn More About the Austin Wilson Memorial Fund

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This Old House joined a bipartisan panel to advance the dialogue around the existing skills gap in America. Here...

This Old House Heads to Washington D.C. to Talk to Legislators About the Skills Gap

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Richard Trethewey installs a combination boiler/water heater

Richard Trethewey informs a homeowner of the various options for a water heater in a tight space

No Space for a Water Heater

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Painting expert Mauro Henrique diagnoses a pergola’s peeling paint

What to Do When Paint Won't Stay Put

These leave the least brush marks

Best Paintbrushes

Pro to Pro Nick and Ross

Get expert advice on renovation, working with a contractor, and more on Monday June 11 at 11 am

Live Pro-to-Pro Q&A with Ross Trethewey and Nick Schiffer

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Our friends at Marvin Windows and Doors are looking to send eight lucky winners to their 3-day intensive seminar on...

Marvin Windows and Doors Immersion Experience

Adirondack Chair Shopping Guide 2018

A few quick picks (all made of wood) if you're looking to add some outdoor seating this summer

Adirondack Chair Shopping Guide

A pro's secrets for rejuvenating weather-beaten wood

How to Refinish a Door

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TOH reader Amy Paladino gets help making a tool bench for her garage from TOH general contractor Tom Silva

How to Build a Tool Bench

Norm Abram and his Pinewood Derby racer

A father, a son, and a blank block of pine: For generations of Cub Scouts, the first time a boy ever took a tool to...

Lessons of the Pinewood Derby

Tom Silva hangs a new front door in an existing frame

Replacing an old entry door with This Old House general contractor Tom Silva

How to Hang a New Front Door in an Existing Frame

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Stay out of the sun while enjoying your outdoor rooms

6 Creative Ways to Add Shade Outdoors

Ways to save on your remodel

We canvassed dozens of industry pros to catalog ways you can wrestle your renovation costs back down to earth

21 Ways to Save on Your Remodel

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You spend a third of your life in bed, so finding the right mattress is key to getting your zzzs. Read on for our...

Read This Before You Buy a Mattress

Dandelion (weed wars)

Learn how to identify common lawn and garden invaders, then get pro advice on how to eliminate them forever

How to Get Rid of Weeds

A bland 1980s bath gets transformed into an elegant retreat with large-scale fixtures that make the room feel more...

A Ho-Hum Bath Becomes a Handsome Retreat

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TOH's Team Saturday shows you how to heat up your summer barbeques with this popular beanbag-toss game

How to Build a Cornhole Game Set

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Every month, Ask This Old House and The Home Depot will present a practical home improvement...

DIY Smarts

Tom Silva teaches a homeowner a simple technique for tiling backsplash

Ask This Old House general contractor Tom Silva teaches a homeowner a simple technique for tiling a backsplash.

How to Install a Simple Tile Backsplash

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Not sleeping well? Maybe its time for a mattress upgrade

Find the Perfect Mattress: What to Know Before You Go

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This Old House general contractor Tom Silva breathes new life into a weather-beaten wood deck

How to Clean and Restain a Deck

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Create a perch—or several—for admiring your landscaping handiwork

12 Ways to Add Outdoor Seating

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These classic flowering shrubs are prized by homeowners from North to South. Here's how to get them to bloom their...

5 Tips for Growing Gorgeous Hydrangeas

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Check out the blunders that unsuspecting home inspectors found on recent home visits ...

Home Inspection Nightmares: Plumbing Edition

Tom Silva and Kevin O'Connor discuss insulating an attic

In this how-to video, This Old House general contractor Tom Silva and host Kevin O'Connor demonstrate the proper way...

How to Insulate an Attic

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Pro painter Brian Carter’s beautiful ideas to dress up an old porch floor

5 Ways to Paint a Porch Floor

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Narragansett Idea House 2018 Craftsman-style cottage

We are excited to be partnering with Union Studio and Sweenor Builders for our 2018 TOH Idea House in Narragansett,...

Narragansett Idea House

the 1840s Charleston Single House TOH TV project in Charleston, SC exterior as work begins

TOH heads south with new Generation Next apprentices to restore and renovate two historic homes

The Charleston Houses

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Eight apprentices in our Generation NEXT program will work alongside the TOH master crew to help expand and restore...

The Newton Generation NEXT House

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Prevent Bambi from doing lasting damage to your landscape

20 Ways to Keep Deer Out of Your Yard

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Check out the blunders that unsuspecting home inspectors found on recent home visits ...

Home Inspection Nightmares: Plumbing Edition

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A follow-up on one of those bygone "Save This Old House" beauties we featured in TOH magazine

Saved! Italianate Before and After

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This Old House helped homeowners Judith and Julia restore the Charleston home that Judith spent her childhood summers...

The Elliotborough House | Kevin’s Photo Albums

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